Types of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to keeping and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a web hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a glance at them. Thus, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to build a weblog, email aliases, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by particular hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages often include adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain spell of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely awry interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different website hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given corporations provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share an immense number of pictures with friends or associates since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your email addresses. Some companies offer web page hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a website. To some degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At SupremeServer, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for specific content solely.